Ebook: Up in the old hotel, and other stories

McSorley's wonderful saloon: The old house at home -- Mazie -- Hit on the head with cow -- Professor sea gull -- A spism and a spasm -- Lady Olga -- Evening with a gifted child -- A sporting man -- The cave dwellers -- King of the gypsies -- The gypsy women -- The deaf-mutes club -- Santa claus Smith -- The don't swear man -- Obituary of a gin mill -- Houdini's picnic -- The Mohawks in high steel -- All you can hold for five bucks -- A mess of clams -- The same as monkeys glands -- Goodbye, Shirley Temple.;McSorley's wonderful saloon cont'd: On the wagon -- The kind old blonde -- I couldn't dope it our -- The downfall of fascism in Black Ankle County -- I blame it all on mamma -- Uncle Dockery and the independent bull -- Old Mr. Flood: Old Mr. Flood -- The black clams -- Mr. Flood's party -- The bottom of the harbor: Up in the old hotel -- The bottom of the harbor -- The rats on the waterfront -- Mr. Hunter's grave -- Dragger captain -- The rivermen -- Joe Gould's secret.;A collection of literary portraits looks at waterfront workers, people on the Bowery, Mohawk Indians working on high structural steel, gypsies, itinerant preachers, and others.